What Could Be (dot com) Archives: graphic design
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29 July 2008
stuff we love: software
Last year we did a round-up of the apps that make it easy to run a design company on the fly, and it’s high time we updated that list. Some things have changed, some have stayed the same, but one thing’s for sure: we’d be lost without these!
Part 1 of 2 (Matt will post his [...]
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13 April 2008
Munchkin Designs
We just launched the new site for Munchkin Designs, and I couldn’t resist placing an order - you know, just to test the system. It came a couple of days ago, and check out the cuteness:
Lisa Komer, Munchkin Designs’ owner, makes the most adorable custom-designed printed materials. And her site is pretty cute, too, if [...]
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17 August 2007
Green Girls Guide
We were very pleased to see that one of our clients was picked as a ‘Shop of the Moment’ by Jaded Pixel today.
The Green Girls are cool people with cool, eco-friendly products, so check ‘em out folks!
We’re really proud of the site, which is a wordpress / shopify integration that we think works quite well.
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15 August 2007
Our first Dashboard Widget
Pretty much since Mac OSX came out we’ve been itching to try our hand at creating a dashboard widget for it. The only problem was, we didn’t have a reason to, so we just kept putting it aside.
Well, we finally bit the bullet and took a stab at it.
For our first widget, we’ve connected [...]
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9 August 2007
Shopify Pricing Changes
The folks over at Jaded Pixel created quite a big kerfuffle with their recent pricing changes for Shopify.
Like a lot of designers who work with Shopify we were mystified. We felt betrayed by people who we had previously sung the praises of, we scratched our heads and fumed. We wrote forum posts questioning their methods, [...]
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23 September 2006
a sketchy tutorial
Want a realistic sketch effect without all that pesky sketching? Check out our latest tutorial.
Click the image below to view each step. If you’re anti-Flash, there’s an HTML version too.
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31 August 2006
logo mojo
People have emotional responses to simple designs, and nowhere is this more evident than in logo design. Certain images signify complex ideas such as reliability, wealth, intelligence, or wisdom: a rock, for example, is often used to portray reliability, while words or images coming out of a square (”thinking outside the box”) brings to mind [...]
